History Of Apple In 31 Pictures That Will Inspire You To Pursue Your Own Dream In The World

The history of how Apple is an awesome piece of our modern world history and it ends with Steve Jobs introducing the first iPhone. That’s when the world accepted Apple as part of their own and as an useful partner of everyday life.

But until then, it was a series of attempts, fights and fails that now, looking back on them, you will say: “How did they do it?”. But this is an inspiring story, after all! This is the History of apple is 31 cool photos.

5. Apple’s first product, the Apple I

It was just a motherboard, a processor and some memory and people with a real passion for computers had to build their own case, add a monitor, keyboard and everything else that was needed. Cool, right?

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6. Wozniak was the brain behind the Apple I and he built everything by hand. This is one of his design diagrams

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7. While Wozniak was building, Jobs was bringing investors in. The first substantial investment was that of Mike Markkula

10. Apple II brought the app VisiCalc

11. In 1978, Apple had a real office, employees and a production line

They look kind of nervous because of Steve Jobs’ difficult personality

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12.The Xerox PARC visit, in 1979

This is a weird one. The Xerox PARC is the place where laser printers, the mouse and ethernet networking were born. Apple engineers were allowed a 3-day visit, in 1979 in exchange for the possibility to by 100,000 shares of Apple for the bargain price of $10 a piece.

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13. The Apple III was launched in 1980

This was more business-focused and thought to compete with IBM and Microsoft. It wasn’t, though, a breakthrough

14. Jobs was convinced that the future stood with the GUI (graphical user interface)

Apple’s next Lisa computer was equipped with a wanna’ be GUI which proved to be a real disaster. It was too expensive for the software it supported.

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15. The next step was the Apple Macintosh, the most-user friendly computer at that time

It was still an expensive piece of tech and it was in black and white.

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16. John Sculley- Apple’s new CEO in 1983

This was Pepsi’s youngest CEO ever. Steve Jobs brought him to Apple to the legendary phrase: “Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?”